Category: Open Source Tools

The best DBAs know that planning for MySQL backups is essential for all organizations because at some point data loss is inevitable. The detailed planning of backups is important because sometimes configuring your systems for backups can impact performance.

Most MySQL shops need two types of MySQL performance monitoring: 1) Recording, so that metrics can be gathered for troubleshooting, trending and so forth and 2) health monitoring for detecting and alerting when something goes wrong. There are dozens of tools to choose from and making a final chose, while …

MonoTouch allows you to harness all those C# skills and most of those handy .NET/Mono libraries to create truly native apps for iOS with a sprinkle of cross-platform support. But why not just use objective-c you cry? Choice is nice, so is C# and so is the range of libraries …

Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms. Selenium runs in many browsers and operating systems. It can be controlled by many programming languages and testing frameworks. In this video Simon Stewart and Jason Huggins give an update on the progress of Selenium 2, …

This session show how can you take advantage of new HTML5 features in your GWT applications in the form of demos. We’ll cover examples of how to use Canvas for advanced graphics, CSS3 features, Web Workers, and more within your Google Web Toolkit applications.

GWT has a lot of little-publicized infrastructure that can help you build apps The Right Way: test-driven development, code coverage, comprehensive unit tests, and integration testing using Selenium or WebDriver. This session will survey GWT’s testing infrastructure, describe some best practices we’ve developed at Google, and help you avoid common …